I am using a pretty complex query to retrieve some data out of one of our billing databases.

I'm running in to an issue where the query seems to complete fairly quickly when executed with SQL Developer, but does not seem to ever finish when using the OracleDataAdapter.Fill() method.

I'm only trying to read about 1000 rows, and the query completes in SQL Developer in about 20 seconds.

What could be causing such drastic differences in performance? I have tons of other queries that run quickly using the same function.

Here is the code I'm using to execute the query:

using Oracle.DataAccess.Client;

...

public DataTable ExecuteExternalQuery(string connectionString, string providerName, string queryText)
{
    DbConnection connection = null;
    DbCommand selectCommand = null;
    DbDataAdapter adapter = null;

    switch (providerName)
    {
        case "System.Data.OracleClient":
        case "Oracle.DataAccess.Client":
            connection = new OracleConnection(connectionString);
            selectCommand = connection.CreateCommand();
            adapter = new OracleDataAdapter((OracleCommand)selectCommand);
            break;
        ...
    }

    DataTable table = null;
    try
    {
        connection.Open();

        selectCommand.CommandText = queryText;
        selectCommand.CommandTimeout = 300000;
        selectCommand.CommandType = CommandType.Text;

        table = new DataTable("result");
        table.Locale = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
        adapter.Fill(table);
    }
    finally
    {
        adapter.Dispose();

        if (connection.State != ConnectionState.Closed)
        {
            connection.Close();
        }
    }

    return table;
}

And here is the general outline of the SQL I'm using:

with
  trouble_calls as
  (
    select
      work_order_number,
      account_number,
      date_entered
    from
      work_orders
    where
      date_entered >= sysdate - (15 + 31)  -- Use the index to limit the number of rows scanned
     and
      wo_status not in ('Cancelled')
     and
      wo_type = 'Trouble Call'
  )
select
  account_number,
  work_order_number,
  date_entered
from
  trouble_calls wo
where
  wo.icoms_date >= sysdate - 15
 and
  (
    select
      count(*)
    from
      trouble_calls repeat
    where
      wo.account_number = repeat.account_number
     and
      wo.work_order_number <> repeat.work_order_number
     and
      wo.date_entered - repeat.date_entered between 0 and 30
  ) >= 1